List of arrested FIFA officials, per the Times:
Those people include nine FIFA officials:
·Jeffrey Webb (Cayman Islands) - President of CONCACAF, member of FIFA Executive Committee
·Eugenio Figueredo (Uruguay) - President of CONMEBOL, member of FIFA Executive Committee
·Jack Warner (Trinida and Tobago) - President of CONCACAF from 1990 to 2011, former FIFA vice-president
·Eduardo Li (Costa Rica) - President of the Costa Rican Football Federation, CONCACAF representative to FIFA
·Julio Rocha (Nicaragua) - President of the Nicaraguan Football Federation, FIFA development officer
·Costas Takkas (Cayman Islands) - Former general secretary of the Cayman Islands Football Association
·Rafael Esquivel (Venezuela) - President of the Venezuelan Football Federation since 1988, member of the FIFA disciplinary committee
·José Maria Marin (Brazil) - President of the Brazilian Football Confederation from 2012 to 2015, president of the 2014 FIFA World Cup committee
·Nicolás Leoz (Paraguay) - President of CONMEBOL from 1986 to 2013
And five sports marketing execs:
·Alejandro Burzaco (Argentina) - CEO of Torneos y Competencias, which owns various sports television channels and broadcasted Argentine domestic football matches from 1992 to 2009, and the 2006 World Cup
·Aaron Davidson (United States) - President of Traffic Sports USA, which organizes and handles marketing for a variety of CONCACAF soccer events, like World Cup Qualifying and the Gold Cup. Chairman of the Board of the North American Soccer League, the soccer tier below MLS
·Hugo Jinkis (Argentina) - President of Full Play, which owns some sort of rights (I am unclear which ones) to hundreds of South American soccer matches
·Mariano Jinkis (Argentina) - CEO of Full Play, which owns some sort of rights (I am unclear which ones) to hundreds of South American soccer matches
·José Margulies (Unknown) - Margulies is somehow involved with Traffic Sports
I see exactly 1 US Citizen among all the South and Central Americans!
I wonder how this will effect the US national team, and our domestic leagues in the next few years. Since the Justice Department went after the top of our own continent’s executives, are we looking at retaliation, such as a suspension from all international competition, be it our national team and our domestic leagues. It would seem to me not implausible that the US could be thrown out of FIFA over this. Before some anti-soccer knuckledraggers get all happy over this, FOX is probably the main target of the Justice Department. You see when FIFA changed the 2022 Qatar World Cup to a Winter tournament, FOX was given the 2026 rights without competing bids.